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Irene’s trail of damage from N.C. to New York

April Rodriguez debates riding out Irene with her friends as she sits Saturday alongside the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn — precisely where reports Sunday indicated Irene, downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, first came ashore in a largely shut down New York City,

A grocery-store worker in Hoboken, N.J., organizes vegetables as he reopens the store after the storm swept the New Jersey shore early Sunday, knocking down trees, leaving thousands of people without electrical power and causing flooding. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie cautioned residents and visitors, hundreds of thousands of whom were ordered to leave vulnerable shore towns, to stay away until roads were clear.

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Resident Norm Stump uses a paddle board as residents return to investigate their homes Sunday on a flooded street in Southampton, N.Y.

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John Harris takes his dog for a walk as Hurricane Irene begins to make landfall in the Rockaway Beach section of Queens.

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A road is underwater during Tropical Storm Irene in Queens’s Rockaway Beach section.

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Emergency volunteers pile sandbags outside the Little Ferry Public Safety Building as cars line up to collect them as the low-lying New Jersey town on the Hackensack River prepares Saturday for Hurricane Irene.

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A man tapes up a window panel to protect against the winds as Hurricane Irene approaches Hoboken on Saturday.

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A man walks in a flooded street in Hoboken on Sunday. New Jersey Gov. Christie told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he expects damages from Hurricane Irene to be possibly in the billions of dollars on the Atlantic coast and along inland rivers.

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A car parked with windows taped in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan as Irene closed in on the New York City area.

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A man rides a bicycle down 14th Street in Manhattan as then–Hurricane Irene closes in late Saturday.

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Caution tape blocks off an entrance to a closed subway station in New York's Times Square on Saturday. The city that never sleeps starting shutting down at midday on Saturday, with nearly all businesses except a smattering of food and liquor stores closing and public transportation coming to a halt ahead of Irene.

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Tourists walk through Times Square as Irene’s early effects arrive Saturday in New York.

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Sixth Avenue in Manhattan stands virtually deserted early Sunday.

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivers remarks at a Saturday news conference as the city prepares for the storm to make landfall. Bloomberg sternly warned New Yorkers to follow the city's unprecedented mandatory evacuation orders on Saturday, saying approaching Hurricane Irene is "life threatening" and "not a joke." Some 370,000 of the city's more than 8 million residents were under orders to leave their homes in low-lying and waterfront areas, largely in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens and in the financial district in downtown Manhattan. The partial evacuation order looked set to be lifted at midafternoon Sunday, with the transit system being described as paralyzed.

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Tourists walk by the White House the morning after Hurricane Irene passes Washington.

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An uprooted tree in the Northwest section of Washington.

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Police tape blocks access to a section of a South End street in Boston after Irene fells a tree.

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A tree pierces the roof of a vehicle in West Hempstead, N.Y., after being blown down by the storm’s exceptionally high winds.

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Capt. Jon Jedlicka checks boats along a dock being battered by the storm surge and winds from Hurricane Irene in Montauk, N.Y.

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A fishing boat sits on the ground after it was blown off its cradle in a boat yard as the back end of Hurricane Irene comes ashore near Atlantic Beach, N.C.

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Brian Grant and Bob Bianchini, public-works engineers, are slammed by waves and storm surges pounding the boardwalk and the beach at first light Sunday as Hurricane Irene slams into Asbury Park, N.J.

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